The Carson City Council has settled on a location for its new teen center.

The council voted 5-0 on Tuesday night to put the teen center on an L-shaped plot of land next to the city’s existing community center.

The city had planned for several years to build a teen center at Carson Park, near Carson and Main streets. That project would have been a joint venture with the Carson Boys and Girls Club, which would have taken on the cost of operating the center.

But Councilwoman Lula Davis-Holmes, a former city recreation superintendent, objected to that plan because it would have bypassed the city’s Parks and Recreation Department.

City staffers had argued that the city could not afford to operate a teen center, given its chronic budget deficits. But the council voted to abandon the joint venture and build a teen center on its own, and assume the cost of operating it with city staff.

The council examined several redevelopment sites, but settled on the Civic Center area because it would not deprive the city of potential commercial development.